• Teach in a classroom with real-time, automatic captions or subtitles in PowerPoint

    Who is this for? Academics teaching in a classroom with a miked computer linked up to a projector who wish to display live automated captions to their students. Microsoft guide We found Microsoft’s guide “Present with real-time, automatic captions or subtitles in PowerPoint” clear and easy to follow. Best results…

  • Editing the automatically-generated captions of your Zoom recordings

    Transcripts make for a fantastic boost in accessibility of your meetings, especially for people who weren’t able to make it to the meeting or count on recordings/transcripts to fully understand what was discussed at the time. However, automatically-generated transcripts have their limits in terms of accuracy, so to make a…

  • How to enable live captions in Zoom meetings (Student)

    Coventry University Group’s Zoom allows users to enable auto-generated captions during meetings. This allows you to read what the meeting participants are saying in real time. It’s important to bear in mind that the captions produced will be computer-generated and, as such, there will be some innacuracies between what captions…

  • Using Live Captions in Zoom (the new CC live transcript button) and sharing transcript recording

    Zoom allows users to enable auto-generated captions during meetings. While automatic captions are never 100% accurate, this setting can help to make your meetings more accessible for your participants. Live transcription limitations Before enabling this setting, it’s important to be aware that automatically generated captions using Zoom’s live transcription feature…

  • Editing the automatically-generated captions of your Teams recordings in Microsoft Stream

    Why is this important? Automatically-generated captions do not meet user needs or accessibility requirements, unless they are confirmed to be fully accurate. They captions may need a significant amount of editing, depending on the conditions of the audio at the time of recording. There are tools that use speech recognition…

  • How to add auto captions/subtitles to your MS Teams recordings

    This guide will walk you through how to upload your Microsoft Teams meeting recordings to Microsoft Stream for processing with auto transcription (subtitling) and sharing. Transcriptions are big boost for accessibility as they allow your learners to have access to a texted-based version of the speech in your meeting recording….

  • Creating transcriptions and closed captioning in Echo360

    This article will help you to understand and use the automatic speech recognition and closed captioning features of Echo360 to improve accessibility for your learners. What is Echo360 ASR? ASR stands for “automatic speech recognition” and is a service provided by Amazon that uses computers to translate speech into text…

  • How to enable live captions in Microsoft Teams (student)

    Microsoft Teams allows users to enable auto-generated captions during meetings. This allows you to read what the meeting participants are saying in real time. It’s important to bear in mind that the captions produced will be computer-generated and, as such, there will be some innacuracies between what captions are shown…